Wii 2 specs leaked?

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figmentPez

figmentPez

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Damn, this is going to be so tempting. I don't have an HDTV, but I do have a computer monitor with an HDMI input. My TV is an old 19" CRT with RF input only, so my Wii looks like crap on it. My old monitor had S-video but it died.

Hopefully Nintendo will include digital 5.1 surround this time as well. That was a stupid oversight for the Wii. Unfortunately, it's possible they'll skip Dolby or DTS encoding and just go with some sort of multi-channel PCM, or whatever the uncompressed audio is called, which won't do me and my older receiver any good.

EDIT: as to "too soon!" the Wii came out in Nov 2006. A fall 2010 release would be 4 years since the Wii. Gamecube to Wii was 5 years, N64 to GCN was 5 years, SNES to N64 was 6 years (5 in North America), NES to SNES was 5-7 years depending on the country.

So, yeah, time between systems has been slowly decreasing. Relative pricing has also gone down a whole lot, too. A NES cost a whole lot more than a Wii if you adjust for inflation.
 
Frank

Frank

Nintendo likes to make money selling consoles. My interest on upgrading a console I don't use to new console I probably won't use will depend on it's price.
 
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JONJONAUG

Probably not true, due to the line about Bluray stopping piracy.

Nintendo uses their own optical disk format, not DVDs. If they switched to Bluray they would become much more susceptible to piracy than they already are (which is pretty much not at all unless you count Wii emulation).

I'm calling fake.

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Shegokigo said:
The Wii has been out long enough. That's no longer a valid excuse. Jasonisgreat is right, it really failed in the library department.
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Eh, I would put it as higher than the N64 but lower than the Gamecube.

After 2010 (between now and the end of 2010 we'll have two new Mario games, the Silent Hill remake, Tatsunoko vs Capcom, No More Heroes 2, Sin and Punishment 2, Epic Mickey, and a few cool pieces of WiiWare including a Cave Story remake) it should be higher than the Gamecube, and lower than the NES/SNES (but that hasn't been topped by any modern console, so that's not such a big deal).
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

JONJONAUG said:
If they switched to Bluray they would become much more susceptible to piracy than they already are (which is pretty much not at all unless you count Wii emulation).
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Wii piracy is actually pretty easy. All you need is a wii, software, and usb storage device (flash drive or external HDD). You can rip wii games from their proprietary discs using the wii itself, and dump it to your storage location of choice, or do the reverse with pirated games and play from the device.
 
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Olorin

It's probably fake. It would be weird if the best selling console of this generation is the first to be replaced. Unless it's considered a minor upgrade like the DSi and not an actual Wii 2.

Also, the Wii has plenty of good games. I wish I had more time and money to play them all.
 
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